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Video: How a wind farm helped transform an Ohio town

Residents of Van Wert, Ohio discuss how a wind project turned their town’s economic prospects around. (Editor’s note – the Ohio Environmental Council is a member of RE-AMP, which publishes Midwest...

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Commentary: Looking forward, and backward, in Michigan

Skip Pruss is a principal and co-founder of 5 Lakes Energy LLC in Lansing. By Skip Pruss 2015 will be a watershed year for energy policy in Michigan – and few states will be watched as carefully by...

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Commentary: How Prairie State puts small towns at risk

Bowling Green, Ohio. (Photo by Pierre Metivier via Creative Commons) By Neocles Leontis All across the Midwest, communities manacled to Prairie State Energy Campus are seeing their electricity rates go...

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Commentary: In Midwest, bipartisan support for clean energy

Alli Gold Roberts is a Policy Associate at Ceres. By Alli Gold Roberts Get consumer-brand companies, investors and state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle together in a room to talk about clean...

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Commentary: A new power plant, despite overcapacity

Michael Vickerman is program and policy director of RENEW Wisconsin. By Michael Vickerman Undeterred by the surfeit of generating capacity available to serve Wisconsin electricity customers, Green...

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Commentary: Are conservatives turning a corner on climate?

Bob inglis is a former U.S. Representative from South Carolina. By Bob Inglis There’s still a long way to go, but conservatives may have begun to move on climate change. Fifteen Republican U.S....

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Commentary: FirstEnergy’s slide persists as it pursues bailout

Cathy Kunkel is an IEEFA fellow. Cross posted from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis By Cathy Kunkel FirstEnergy’s most recent quarterly numbers and its outlook for 2015 are...

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Video: Michigan conservatives speak out on clean energy

In a new video released by the Michigan Conservative Energy Forum, prominent state Republicans discuss the need for their party to be involved in clean-energy discussions.

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Commentary: Time for monopoly reform in Minnesota

Atlanta Tea Party activist Debbie Dooley is president of Conservatives for Energy Freedom. By Debbie Dooley The college Republicans and Democrats at the College of Saint Mary and Saint John’s...

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Commentary: Business, beauty and Minnesota’s energy future

Dave Rapaport is the Vice President of Earth and Community Care at Aveda, based in Blaine, Minnesota. By Dave Rapaport What could the creation of beauty products derived from botanical ingredients have...

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